Obama the Socialist?

Sen. John McCain’s new dig at Obama is that he wants to “spread the wealth” and that that makes him a socialist.

When I heard this, and learned that people could actually be buying into this, I laughed. 

Firstly. If anyone, and I mean anyone, supports an NFL team that isn’t successful and calls Obama a socialist or “redistributing the wealth” they might as well give up on the “socialist” NFL.

The NFL has revenue sharing you see. What that does is it takes all the money it makes from TV and distributes it amongst the teams. Major League Baseball, AMERICA’S pastime, does the same thing. 

Look. Obama may be very liberal, and I understand that doesn’t sit well with a lot of people. But to believe that he wants to redistribute wealth and make America a communist state? Really? Does anyone pay attention? Do people realize that a BAIL OUT would be the same thing? Doesn’t McCain support the bail out? 

I believe John McCain, like Republicans in the past eight years, has been put in a tough place. George W. inherited an America that had some problems, but those problems were probably overshadowed by the good economy. But, the dot com boom finally busted and 9/11 happened. I don’t know how unlucky you could get to start a presidency. 

Something similar happened to McCain. See, the conservative way of doing things isn’t doing so well right now. After eight years of George W., people are sick of Republicans. This will be mirrored by the way the Senate races go. McCain is the leader of an unpopular party and happens to be a very liberal conservative, if that makes any sense at all. 

McCain had to solidify the base, which is what the Palin pick did, and he’s done that pretty effectively with his new “socialist” message. I suppose it worked, but you don’t have to go that far.

It especially hurts when Obama is not going to raise taxes for the middle class. 

Basically:

Obama is not a socialist.

McCain has no choice but to say these things.

Don’t fall for campaign spin from EITHER CAMPAIGN. 

To further the above point, McCain isn’t Bush.

Don’t stick to one news source.

I think my last point is the best one. Don’t only watch MSNBC because the ultra liberal view can blow your mind. Don’t watch too much CNN cause they are slanted to the left a little as well, though it’s not as obvious. Don’t watch too much Fox News cause there is far too much yelling, and I don’t think it’s good to watch people yell a lot. 

Ultimately, I got off track here… but everyone needs to look things up for themselves and ratify their sources before listening to one thing and running with it! Gah.

This is why you need to be educated.

Or you will look like a complete and utter fool and become a YouTube sensation.

For some background, President Bush was in Israel and in a speech to the Knesset he essentially took a shot at Obama and comparing him to Hitler appeasers. McCain then took it a step further and compared him to Neville Chamberlain.

Obama has said that he would be fine with talking with Iran and negotiate with them, and basically using diplomacy to get Iran to end it’s nuclear weapons program. That is what McCain and Bush were referring to when calling Obama an appeaser.

Here’s the vid I’m talking about:

Obama captures 9 more superdelegates

And he brings the Democratic primaries an inch closer to ending.

One of the ’supers’ was a former Clinton supporter as well. If the majority of the ’supers’ support Obama this primary season could end as soon as two weeks from now.

In the meantime, Obama and McCain have essentially begun the general election swapping blows on whether Obama is endorsed by Hamas and if Obama is age-ist or if McCain is losing his bearings.

Oh, boy… there will be some fun come November.

Even more fun considering McCain’s pastor supporters may be more controversial than Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Rev. John Hagee, a McCain endorser, has claimed Hurricane Katrina was created by God to punish New Orleans for its homosexual sins.

On the other side, Rev, Rod Parsley has called Islam a “false religion” and has essentially called on Christians to wage war on the religion.

Right, now it’s time to sit back and wait for the backlash… I mean, there has to be backlash. Right? …right? Media? Hello?

Initial reactions to Super Tuesday.

It’s safe to say that Sen. McCain has wrapped up the Republican nomination. With Romney and Huckabee dueling it out over second place McCain continues to garner states and keep his front runner status. As we continue with the states I’m sure McCain will continue to take states despite not being amazingly popular with conservatives.

However, there might be a problem with him during the General Election. He failed to get any of the southern states. Huckabee essentially sweeped those while Romney took a lot of the northern states, including Alaska.

On the Democrat side, it’s essentially a tie. Though, it’s an impressive tie for Obama. He was way back in the polls a month ago and now he’s neck and neck with Clinton and won more states than her.

It’s been a long and exciting Super Tuesday, but tomorrow morning we’ll get on the delegate counts.

Just a side note: My condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the tornados in the south. Hopefully they can get aid as soon as possible.

Countdown to Super Tuesday

The nationwide state-by-state voting for the Democratic and Republican Primaries takes place in a little less than a week now, and things are getting just a bit more exciting ’round these here United States.

Firstly, Edwards and Giuliani are out. Giuliani gave his endorsement to Sen. McCain of Arizona while Edwards… well… hasn’t endorsed anyone yet, but it’s hard to see him endorse Sen. Clinton when they’re so different. Oh, and he’s attacked her the most compared to the rest of the Democratic nominees.

An Edwards endorsement for Sen. Obama makes sense as well, especially after Obama took time in his speech today to talk about poverty (something Edwards was centralizing his campaign on).

It’ll be tough for Obama, however. According to the likes of CNN.com and MSNBC.com, Clinton leads in New York and California, which happen to be the two states on Super Tuesday with the most delegates.

I’m excited to see whether the endorsement of the Three Kennedy’s and the debate tomorrow can shift Obama in those two states. It’ll definitely be an interesting couple of days.

On the Republican side it’s essentially between McCain and Romney. McCain will likely take it all unless Romney, or even Huckabee, can pull off some upsets and take back some of the momentum. Although, if McCain wins the nomination there’s a potential problem he could face in the national election. The following sentence:

“I was on the front lines with my friends saying we not only can’t withdraw but we’ve got to have additional troops over there in order for us to have a chance to succeed.”

McCain said that at the GOP debate tonight. And, well, that’s not a very good thing to say when it seems like most of the country is very against the war. Oh, and most importantly want the troops back in the states as soon as possible.

I urge anyone and everyone voting on Super Tuesday to pay attention this weekend. The Super Bowl is on Sunday and people will get a bit distracted with all the Super Bowl Parties and whatnot, but there still are primary elections on Tuesday and they will shape the nomination races in both parties.